Editing Otto Skorzeny (section)

=== Military advisor ===
{{Further information|Relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world|Latin_America_during_World_War_II#Axis_activity}} 
[[File:Otto Skorzeny y Peron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Skorzeny (left) and [[Juan Perón]] (center)]]

In 1952, when Egypt was taken over by General [[Mohammed Naguib]], Skorzeny was sent to [[Egypt]] the following year by former General [[Reinhard Gehlen]] (who was now working indirectly for the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]) to act as Naguib's military adviser. Skorzeny recruited a staff made up of former SS and Wehrmacht officers to train the Egyptian army. Among these officers were former Wehrmacht generals [[Wilhelm Fahrmbacher]] and [[Oskar Munzel]]; the head of the [[Gestapo]] Department for Jewish Affairs in occupied Poland [[Leopold Gleim]]; and Joachim Daemling, former chief of the Gestapo in Düsseldorf. In addition to training the army, Skorzeny also trained Arab volunteers in commando tactics for possible use against British troops stationed in the Suez Canal zone. Several Palestinian refugees also received commando training, and Skorzeny planned their raids into Israel via the Gaza Strip in 1953–1954. One of these Palestinians was [[Yasser Arafat]]. He stayed on to serve as an adviser to Egyptian President [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]].{{clarify timeframe|date=April 2025}}<ref>Infield, Glenn B. ''Skorzeny: Hitler's Commando'', NY: St. Martin's Press, 1981. <!-- ISSN/ISBN needed -->{{page needed|date=June 2023}}</ref>{{page needed|date=June 2023}}<ref name=PL>John S. Craig. [https://books.google.com/books?id=xNMVVsHEm5cC "Peculiar liaisons: in war, espionage, and terrorism in the twentieth century"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331161415/https://books.google.com/books?id=xNMVVsHEm5cC|date=31 March 2019}}, Algora Publishing, 2005; {{ISBN|0-87586-331-0}}/{{ISBN|978-0-87586-331-3}}. pg. 163</ref><ref>Copeland, Miles. The Game Player: Confessions of the CIA's original political operative. 1989. Aurum Press. Page 181. "...early in the Egyptian-American relationship, we began to suspect that Nasser was employing experts other than those we provided...Our suspicions were confirmed when former SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny dropped in on our station chief in Madrid to inform him that he had been approached by the Military Attache in the Egyptian Embassy there to request his assistance in recruiting German army officers who might find Egypt a convenient place to hide out from Nazi hunters. Could the CIA help? Indeed, we could. With Otto's help, the CIA officer working with General Gehlen in Pullach chose some German generals, colonels and majors who were so stupid that they could be counted upon to screw up the Egyptian army so thoroughly that it wouldn't be able to find its way from Cairo to Ismailia, let alone fighting the British after arriving there...Most of them (the Nazis) were anti-Arab, although they had the wit to conceal that fact."</ref><ref group=Note name=Note04/>

According to some authors, he traveled between Spain and Argentina, where he acted as an advisor to President [[Juan Perón]]<ref name="haaretz2016"/><ref name=BBC/> and as a bodyguard for [[Eva Perón]],<ref name=PL/><ref name=BBC/> while fostering an ambition for the "[[Fourth Reich]]" to be centred in Latin America.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Barbie's Postwar Ties With U.S. Army Detailed|newspaper=[[Boston Globe]]|date=14 February 1983}}</ref><ref>Infield</ref><ref>Wechsberg, pp. 81, 116</ref>